Progress bar

[pehkawn]

Imputing large datasets may often require a considerable amount of time, and the user have very little info on how the imputation process is progressing. Having some feedback on the progress, such as a progress bar, would've been nice.

In the documentation it states that futuremice() is based on furrr::futuremap(). During an unrelated search, I became aware that furrr::futuremap() comes with a .progress parameter. I tried passing .progress = TRUE in futuremice(), but the parameter is effectively ignored. Perhaps it would be possible to use futuremap()s progress bar to see the progress of the imputations?

[thomvolker]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I agree that this would be a very welcome addition. However, the .progress argument will be deprecated in furrr, which is why this is not implemented. An optional progress bar can be implemented through the R-package progressr, but for the most informative progress bar, this requires that this function is implemented within the mice sampler. I think this should be doable.

[pehkawn]

Thanks for the tip! I will look into progressr for now, and hope to see this feature added in mice() or futuremice() soon.